Full-time Missionaries

Wayne and I officially put on our name tags and became full-time missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. We can even introduce ourselves as such in Korean, if you don’t fall asleep before we finish saying it.

The Missionary Training Center was a joyous place for us. We had incredible admiration for the faith, sacrifice, and talents of the other senior couples we worked with. We were pushed beyond our comfort zone as we taught in simulated settings. We were thankful for the volunteers who came to be our “investigators.” They were very patient.

The young Korean missionaries were patient in listening to us practice our Korean and helping us hear how our words are supposed to sound.

We walked the MTC campus and indoor track during breaks to reach our 10,000 steps and appreciated the treat of hearing Elder Bednar, an apostle of Jesus Christ, share a message about how the Savior ministered to people one-by-one. His charge to us was to do the same. What a wonderful experience to be surrounded by thousands of young missionaries as they sang a new song Elder Bednar wrote with Paul Cardall. It’s a treat that can only come if you are a senior missionary there with them.

One more week of training for our specific assignment and we are on an airplane to Seoul, Korea.